In April 2011, Sony PlayStation and Qriocity services have been attacked by the illegal and unauthorized intrusion into the company network, compromising information about the user account. For five days, the corporation turned off in both of its PlayStation Network and Qriocity services while it conducted a full and thorough investigation by an external security company. Although brief statements on the matter were posted on the blog PlayStation, Sony has not publicly disclose the full extent of a security breach, or the expected date when network services are back to normal, resulting in many people speculating if your personal or financial information has been illegally obtained. Time was complicated by the inevitable announcement on the launch of the Tablet PC Sony. In its public statement, Sony designed to communicate key points of information, explanations and solutions for network interruption. With more than 70 million PlayStation Network and Qriocity service accounts of users around the world, customers, analysts, investors, consumer advocacy groups and government officials have all been waiting for answers. "Hide
by Jana Seijts, Paul Bigus Source: Richard Ivey School of Business Foundation 12 pages. Publication Date: November 12, 2012. Prod. #: W12309-PDF-ENG
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